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Richter is pulled into The Land, granted a village charter, and discovers the game he thought he knew is a world with teeth. The founding text of kingdom-building LitRPG: claim territory, recruit the strange, defend it all.
Progression: settlement systems stacked on personal levels — the village's sheet matters as much as the hero's.
Reader fit: you want base-building compulsion in book form.
Texture: enthusiastic, loot-happy, old-school.
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